diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index 8102a23b2487..4fb045d26bd5 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_alloc(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct gendisk *disk,
 	blkg->q = disk->queue;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkg->q_node);
 	blkg->blkcg = blkcg;
+	blkg->iostat.blkg = blkg;
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO
 	spin_lock_init(&blkg->async_bio_lock);
 	bio_list_init(&blkg->async_bios);
@@ -1047,6 +1048,8 @@ static void __blkcg_rstat_flush(struct blkcg *blkcg, int cpu)
 		smp_mb();
 
 		WRITE_ONCE(bisc->lqueued, false);
+		if (bisc == &blkg->iostat)
+			goto propagate_up; /* propagate up to parent only */
 
 		/* fetch the current per-cpu values */
 		do {
@@ -1056,10 +1059,24 @@ static void __blkcg_rstat_flush(struct blkcg *blkcg, int cpu)
 
 		blkcg_iostat_update(blkg, &cur, &bisc->last);
 
+propagate_up:
 		/* propagate global delta to parent (unless that's root) */
-		if (parent && parent->parent)
+		if (parent && parent->parent) {
 			blkcg_iostat_update(parent, &blkg->iostat.cur,
 					    &blkg->iostat.last);
+			/*
+			 * Queue parent->iostat to its blkcg's lockless
+			 * list to propagate up to the grandparent if the
+			 * iostat hasn't been queued yet.
+			 */
+			if (!parent->iostat.lqueued) {
+				struct llist_head *plhead;
+
+				plhead = per_cpu_ptr(parent->blkcg->lhead, cpu);
+				llist_add(&parent->iostat.lnode, plhead);
+				parent->iostat.lqueued = true;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&blkg_stat_lock, flags);
 out: